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Accidental Innuendo: This infamous picture of Imaizumi and Onoda. note Due to Onoda's hand placement of the flask being close to Imaizumi's crotch, also not helping that Imaizumi is showing off his abs

Foe Yay: The most popular ones are Makishima/Toudou, Imaizumi/Naruko and Kinjou/Fukutomi.

Machimiya/Arakita also counts.

When Toudou and Onoda first meet, Toudou tells him he considers him "a 3, visually speaking". After the race, Toudou takes it back and says Onoda has nice eyes, which makes Onoda blush.

Very much so between Onoda and Manami. In a conversation with Toudou, Manami calls Onoda's smile "beautiful" and comments that his glasses suit him. Onoda is also rather mesmerized by him, and at times seems distressed by the thought of not going to Interhigh because he wouldn't be able to fulfill his promise with Manami. The vibes go over the roof when Manami pulls Onoda close during the race and asks if he "can feel it too". Arakita even shouts to Manami to stop "whispering with the enemy". These two are not playfully compared to Shinji/Kaworu without reason.

Genius Bonus: Izumida names his specs Andy and Frank, which is likely a reference to the professional road bicycle racer Luxembourgish brothers Andy and Frank Schlek.

THE PACK: the mass of cyclists who failed to get high rankings places on day 2 of the Interhigh and so are now riding as a huge group to ride at a high consistent speed to catch up to the other cyclists... that is played more or less as an unstoppable eldritch horror in the anime.

Arakita's withdrawn from the team in the third day of Interhigh can have this kind of effect for some, mostly because his teammates act like he died or something (Manami is especially guilty of this, going to the point of saying Arakita was a great person. In the past tense). But for the majority, it's still a very convincing Tear Jerker moment that crowns his Character Development, so there is a bit of Narm Charm element there.

The first race between Kinjou and Fukutomi consist largely of them saying their respective catchphrases ("I am a man that never gives up" and "I am strong"), each other's names, and explaining rules of the race to each other.

Narm Charm: The whole idea of the power of the Love Hime song is utterly hilarious and strangely uplifting.

Padding: Due to its popularity in Japan (in its heyday it is always near the top of the TOC rankings along with Baki Dou in Akita Shonen Champion), the mangaka is able to extent the Interhigh match as long as possible, taking nearly 150 chapters just to finish the entire first year of Interhigh, some of the pages consists of cyclists riding to the finish line meters by meters until the very end

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